Development of Plant-Based Antimicrobials for Use In Cosmetics and Personal Care Products.

消费品中的清洁标签趋势继续增长。消费者不仅愿意为贴有清洁标签的产品支付更高的价格，他们还希望从这些产品中获得更多，如健康益处、可持续生产和透明来源。Mirexus BioTechnologies Inc.(MBI)是总部位于安大略省圭尔夫的领先生物纳米材料公司。MBI寻求在其植物衍生化妆品和个人护理成分系列中增加新的功能产品。新的植物衍生产品将用于抗菌处理，目标是取代传统的合成防腐剂。MBI与Lambton College合作，建议使用可持续提取方法从丰富的安大略省植物原料中分离抗菌植物化学物质，通过封装提高抗菌效率，并评估植物化学物质和封装植物化学配方防止化妆品基础霜受到微生物污染的能力。MBI将受益于获得将新产品商业化所需的知识，并且由于MBI打算成为该项目的积极合作伙伴，包括培训总部在化妆品开发中使用的研究技术，Lambton将受益于提高该领域的产能，从而使其更好地服务于更广泛的个人护理产品和其他相关行业。在该项目期间启动的新抗菌产品的成功开发将直接增加MBI的利润。MBI的大部分客户都在海外，对这些市场新产品出口的增加支撑了加拿大的GDP。

The clean-labeling trend in consumer products continues to grow. Not only are consumers willing to pay more for clean-labelled products, they are also expecting more from these products, such as health benefits,sustainable production and transparent sourcingMirexus Biotechnologies Inc. (MBI), is a leading bio-nanomaterials company based in Guelph, Ontario. MBIseeks to add new functional products to its line of plant-derived cosmetic and personal care ingredients. The new plant-derived products will be used as antimicrobial treatments, with a goal of displacing conventionalsynthetic preservatives.MBI proposes in collaboration with Lambton College to use sustainable extraction methods to isolateantimicrobial phytochemicals from abundant Ontario plant feedstocks, to improve antimicrobial efficacythrough encapsulation and to assess the ability of the phytochemicals and encapsulated phytochemicalformulations to prevent microbial contamination of cosmetic base creams.MBI will benefit from receiving the knowledge needed to commercialize new products, and as MBI intends tobe an active partner in this project, including training HQP on research techniques used in cosmeticsdevelopment, Lambton will benefit by achieving an increased capacity in this growing area thereby allowing usto better serve the broader personal care products, and other related, industries. Successful development of new antimicrobial products initiated during this project would directly add to MBI's bottom line. The majority of MBI's customers are overseas, and increased exports of new products to these markets supports Canada's GDP.